New Blackberry phone has major hill to climb

Feb. 4, 2013

Written by

David Callaway

MCLEAN, Va. -- Ken Olsen was right. There is no need for anybody to have a computer in their home.

That's because we now have them in our pockets. And that's a lesson best heeded by BlackBerry maker Research In Motion as it goes to market with its new BlackBerry Z10 and a new corporate name. Indeed, the company's very existence is at stake on this latest model.

Most of today's iPhone, Galaxy and BlackBerry users could be forgiven if they don't recognize Olsen's name. He was the chief executive of Digital Equipment Corp., which in the late 1970s and 1980s was the second largest computer company in the ...